They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement. My research suggests that the personal lives of these suffrage leaders shaped their political agendas. Rather than emphasizing ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members of local branches of the WCTU to sponsor suffrage speakers and convey information about the suffrage movement to their communities.

that half a century later we would be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation of women.” Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ...

The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the suffrage movement. This collection includes personal papers of suffragists and suffragettes, records ...

A combative and outspoken leader in the women's suffrage movement, Alice Paul broke away from the National American Woman Suffrage Association to form the more radical National Woman's Party. She ...

Anthony Day in February. Hawley visited to note Western New York’s long history in the women’s suffrage movement, including one of his relatives, Ella Hawley Crossett.

Many of the interviewees talk about their relationships with more famous suffrage leaders such as the Pankhursts ... it extended chronologically to include discussion of the women’s movement after ...

The leaders of the women’s suffrage movement were not only able to vote but, in some cases, run for a seat in the House of Commons. Their names are often seen in history books today - names such ...

She was a tireless ambassador for the suffrage movement ... the main leaders of unionism and nationalism at the time, Edward Carson and John Redmond, were both opposed to women’s suffrage.

it may come as a surprise to some to learn that not all Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania students and faculty were in favor of the suffrage movement. This editorial in the student magazine from ...